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Permanent Contracts, soul or account bound?

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For the permanent Merchant/TP/Hair Style/Bank Contracts, are they soul or account bound?

Couldn’t find the details after googling. Thanks!

[Poll]Teq pre-patch and post-patch

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Your poll doesn’t go back far enough. I use to do Tequatl several times a week, before the Tequatl uprising patch. Haven’t done it since. I prefer to avoid large lag provoking groups, would much rather solo.

That is not the context which I want to poll.

[Poll]Teq pre-patch and post-patch

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http://strawpoll.me/1566263

The main purpose of this poll is plain and simple: to see how the new patched boss times affected people. In particular, with Tequatl, the most popular mega boss pre-patch.

I’m also curious to see whether or not a good number of people who didn’t do Teq before are doing Teq now due to the megaserver implementation.

I also have this posted up on the GW2 subreddit, and you can see an extended discussion there as well. (http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/23tsjy/how_many_days_in_a_week_did_you_do_tequatl/)

Toggle on Legendary Effects

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Hi ANET,

I’ve been an owner of The Dreamer shortbow for about two months now, and am pretty satisfied with the bow. However, with the new particle effects, I feel that there are some effects that I could do without.

I’d like to suggest a toggle on some effects. For example, with the new footfalls on The Dreamer, I don’t particularly like the hoof marks that it leaves or the small rainbow that comes out, but I do like the initial glow on the steps. I’d like to be able to toggle and select which effects I want on the legendary.

If that is complicated, I would like the option to at least remove the footfall effect. Likewise, I could see some use of this to toggle off the unicorn effect, just in case if their party members find it distracting during a dungeon run (although the animation is pretty kitten awesome).

I am sure that some other people would feel the same about their legendaries too.

Entire Party kicked from dungeon

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Simple issue that’s been happening since launch.

Whenever the person who entered the dungeon leaves the dungeon or changes a character, the entire party gets kicked out of the dungeon.

It occurred again most recently earlier today when my party got to Jade Maw in FotM 18.

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It's time to punish brute force

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easy solution:
nerf crit damage

F&F grand finale schedule ?

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Well, I’d just have to say that i feel like i have the rug pulled under me.

I was about to complete the achievements about 20 minutes ago, finally being free for the weekend, and thought that I still had time since the official event page has no mention of anything happening on the 12th.

F&F grand finale schedule ?

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are the Lost and Found and Secret Contact achievements locked now?

Only 20 Listings for Trading Post

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So basically it hinders market flipping so average folks like me won’t need to pay outragerous price for people who buy out the TP and relist items several times higher?

Thank you Anet!

Market flipping is still possible, and you are right that it is more difficult to do so without the information.

However, someone who is able to flip the market like that would already have huge sums of money, and would also be risking a huge portion of their wealth. I have not once seen an item that was flipped and stayed flipped for more than half a day without showing signs adjusting back to it’s normal price drastically. It is simply not profitable unless if you’re already rich yourself; and even so, there are huge risks involved. This is because the amount of suppliers simply overwhelm the market (every single player of every single server is part of the market. In other games, server markets are usually separated).

Have you ever seen any of this relisting of prices of items to be several times higher among T6 items or superior runes? It usually takes a single person to purchase thousands for the T6 items, and hundreds for the superior runes in order to do this, and you usually cannot sell it all for the price that you’ll list it for afterwards, since people will undercut you.

You also have to pay the 15% fee on top of that, forcing you to have a significantly larger margin of risk. The result of this is that you’d have to sell at a point that is higher than 15% of the original price that will have a good enough profit margin in order to justify what you did.

There seems to be a GW2 culture around the scary figure of someone manipulating the market, but this isn’t so.

The market isn’t being manipulated as hard as you guys make it out to be. It simply isn’t profitable most of the time, and usually involves too many risks due to the amount of suppliers and the amount needed to buy in order to manipulate the market.

This Is Important!
The 20 viewing cap limits the ability to invest wisely. This means having a certain item and knowing when to sell it. It’s easier to scope out the nature of an item, and whether or not the price will be able to continue to rise in price. It would also be easier to be able to predict how long the item will remain stagnant in price, and when it may change. You know more about your risks in holding onto an item to sell later. You would also know more about the item before you sell it.

The 20 viewing limit is hindering the entire investment community.

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Only 20 Listings for Trading Post

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Not an economist but is the gist of this that it will be harder to manipulate the tp prices upwards? If so I’m glad.

That is not the only aspect of this. When you are more aware of the nature of the price and supply of an item, you are able to properly invest into it using the buy orders and be able to hold onto them for whatever period of time you deem worthy.

It is much more difficult to know when and where to invest if we only have access to the information of 20 of the prices.

it sounds like the gist is that you can’t monitor market prices as effectively or buy huge quantities at a time.

This summarizes my point above tersely. Monitoring the market also allows for wise investment. By seeing only 20 of the prices, it is more difficult to do this.

It simply does not make sense to limit the information of a market to the users.

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Only 20 Listings for Trading Post

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Hi, with the new patch, every single item’s availability is misleading.

The count for each item now only reflects the first 20 cheapest prices on the market. We cannot see the prices and supply of the items listed beyond these 20 prices. Also, as an avid trading post player, I find that this hinders analysis of the supply and price of the item.

Since we are hidden from the information of higher valued posts, it is significantly more difficult to merchant without the knowledge of the prices beyond the 20 cheapest listed prices. This is a great inconvenience and will greatly downgrade the quality of the TP.

Temple of Balthazar chain quest bugged [Merged]

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Maguuma south assault is bugged as well.